The Brooklyn-based distributor will give Cosmo Feilding Mellen's documentary about LSD manufacturers from the 1960s a theatrical run this fall.

The Brooklyn-based film and TV distributor will give the doc, which had its world premiere at the DOC NYC festival last year, a theatrical run in the fall.

The film tells the story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, underground chemists and cult figures from the 1960s who manufactured industrial quantities of acid as part of a utopian mission, and sparked the psychedelic movement in the process.

Feilding Mellen, the son of LSD advocate and drug policy reformer Amanda Feilding, co-wrote the doc with Connie Littlefield. It was produced by George Chignell and Nicole Stott of Passion Pictures and exec produced by John Battsek and Persephone Pictures’ Omar Fayed.

“Now more than ever, the use of LSD is being discussed and debated all over the world, proving just how relevant and impactful Sand and Scully’s story remains,” Feilding Mellen said in a statement.

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